The Board of Directors of Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) today announced that Erich Nakano has been named Executive Director of the organization. Nakano has served in this role in an interim capacity since July 2019....
With the recent passing of Dean Matsubayashi, the executive director of the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), I lost a close colleague and friend, his family lost a dear loved one, and we all lost a fighter for community improvement and social justice....
Diagnosed with brain cancer on Mother’s Day 2018, Dean Matsubayashi continued to lead LTSC despite ongoing medical treatments. As recently as last May, he made a public statement thanking donors for their support of LTSC’s signature project, the Terasaki Budokan, currently under construction. “Dean’s...
Highest steel beam is raised on Little Tokyo gymnasium. Two koinobori flags seemed to swim upward, as a 21-foot, 840-pound white steel beam was lifted high into the air on Friday on the site of the future Terasaki Budokan in Little Tokyo. A crowd of approximately 150 gathered below...
Gifts from Toshio Handa and Akira Fujimoto keep campaign momentum going in final stretch. Terasaki Budokan, a new gymnasium and community center in Little Tokyo, is being built by the nonprofit community group Little Tokyo Service Center....
Gymnasium scheduled to open in Little Tokyo in spring 2020. Ryan Lee, 30, of Los Angeles has been named to become the permanent head of Terasaki Budokan, a sports and activities complex currently under construction in Little Tokyo, according to Dean Matsubayashi, executive director of Little...
On a muggy Thursday morning of August 3rd, Little Tokyo Service Center broke ground for Budokan, its project to provide a recreational, cultural and community center for residents of Little Tokyo and Japanese Americans throughout southern California. MORE THAN JUST A BASKETBALL COURT Not only was...
Dream of a recreation center in Little Tokyo advances with groundbreaking for Terasaki Budokan. One by one, different clusters of people picked up the gilded ceremonial shovels on Thursday morning to take photos atop a small mound of dirt in what is now a parking...
Terasaki Family Foundation donates $3.5 million for Little Tokyo gymnasium. A game-changer. That is the impact of a $3.5 million donation by the Terasaki Family Foundation for construction of the Budokan of Los Angeles....
